Here is a thread about a black dude who can't design shit, taking inspiration from black dudes who can design shit in order to help him continue being unable to design shit:
http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=36549
Let's forget for a moment all the white and yellow fags posting in the thread for fag points, and concentrate on the black opening poster for a second.
I totally understand his situation. His desire for role models who look sort of like him is totally reasonable and understandable. The problem is that, if you take the long view of the situation, it is also stupid. Let's say for a moment that the issue is not race but nationality, and that I wanted to become a game designer. How many Greek game designer role models would I have to look up to? None. So it's either I don't become a game designer, or I lift my head out of my ass and look for people OUTSIDE my nationality to whom I can look up. And I mean, after all, it was the Americans and the Japanese who primarily created this artform, so what would be more natural than for most of the role models to be from those two countries? And why do the blacks have to take everything so personally? If I wanted to learn kendo or ikebana I would even be EXTRA proud of the fact that I had a Japanese teacher or role model, instead of spending days and weeks coming up with lists of the handful of Greek losers who dabbled in these two crafts at some point in time. So how is it that I, a Greek person, can look up to black people like Michael Jordan or yellow people like Miyamoto Musashi or red people like Geronimo, and the fucking blacks have such a huge fucking problem looking up to white people?
The answer, dear friends, is simple: because I don't feel racially inferior to them. The problem has nothing to do with "the industry" or with what any of we white people say or do: the problem is with the blacks themselves.